"Because of the complexity of multimodal projects and the different levels of skill and sensitivity each individual brings to their execution, such projects often demand high levels of collaboration and teamwork."
"The use of multi-modal literacies has expanded the ways we acquire information and understand concepts. Ever since the days of illustrated books and maps texts have included visual elements for the purpose of imparting information. The contemporary difference is the ease with which we can combine words, images, sound, color, animation, video, and styles of print in projects so that they are part of our everyday lives and, at least by our youngest generation, often taken for granted."
Capturing our Words and Thoughts:
Daunting
Audience and genre appropriate
Understanding it flexibly and rhetorically, socially, academically, personally, culutrally
Critical analysis of the genres
Convey the experience/message/person of the writer
Living documents
Transportable/flexible
Complexity
Quickly accessible/speed (less revision)
Visual
Collaborative
New language/discources
Power shift
Often anonymous
What are the "criteria" in a digital age?
Transmediation/cutting across different media
It is both visual and auditory and textual
Understanding is key -- writers adjust to audience
Multilingual in the ways I write and communicate
Everything it was in the analog age, and more (linked, analyzed, public, current, streamed, fed, illustrated, and open to comment)
Good 21st century writing takes responsibility for the consequences of the message much more than ever
Archived
How are you defining "good" -- acceptable, better than average, exemplary?
Email around the world
Transformative
Enabling
Audience moves beyond teacher to a much bigger community
Removes barriers and boundaries (although it creates a few, too)
CEE Colloquim - Multimodal Writing
11:00 - 12:15Troy Hicks
- "Because of the complexity of multimodal projects and the different levels of skill and sensitivity each individual brings to their execution, such projects often demand high levels of collaboration and teamwork."
- "The use of multi-modal literacies has expanded the ways we acquire information and understand concepts. Ever since the days of illustrated books and maps texts have included visual elements for the purpose of imparting information. The contemporary difference is the ease with which we can combine words, images, sound, color, animation, video, and styles of print in projects so that they are part of our everyday lives and, at least by our youngest generation, often taken for granted."
Capturing our Words and Thoughts: